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Jul. 27th, 2015 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestSparkly Campers! And others of you who visit London!
THIS may be relevant to your interests. 'This' being a bus tour of London with afternoon tea.
How perfect is that?
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I bought a couple of albums recently. Adam Lambert's "The Original High" disappoints me in the same way that Nsync's "Celebrity" does: too much production, too little heart.
There are some great songs on it: "Ghost Town" is really cool, interesting and enormously atmospheric—I can visualise AL standing in a desolate, spaghetti-western style setting as I listen; "The Original High" is a good song; I like "Underground" even though I'm very dubious about the phrase "I want you to take me underground". "There I Said It" is my favourite, and I love it very much. After that... "Things I Didn't Say" seems to me a terrible waste of a song that might have been heartrending with a broken vocal and minimal accompaniment—it's a good song, though not in the same class as Nsync's "I Thought She Knew", which has much the same concept, but it's a showpiece instead of an emotional one. "Lucy" has lyrics I actively dislike—and what a shocking waste of Dr Brian May. "Shame" has a sly, aren't-I-edgy vibe that makes me cross, and I vastly prefer the gleeful enthusiasm of "For Your Entertainment". Some of the rest make me wonder why anybody thought they should be on the album at all.
It's all very polished and highly produced in mostly rather familiar ways, and although there are songs on this album that I really, really like, overall it's just so disappointing.
And then there's Kris Allen's "Horizons", which is all heart, and pretty basic in terms of sound, and makes me smile. His love songs are interesting and really feel as though he's singing them *to* someone, and although a couple of the songs are simple in the extreme, they still manage to be jolly and catchy and likeable. And "Lost" is *wonderful*. Quite wonderful.
THIS may be relevant to your interests. 'This' being a bus tour of London with afternoon tea.
How perfect is that?
* * *
I bought a couple of albums recently. Adam Lambert's "The Original High" disappoints me in the same way that Nsync's "Celebrity" does: too much production, too little heart.
There are some great songs on it: "Ghost Town" is really cool, interesting and enormously atmospheric—I can visualise AL standing in a desolate, spaghetti-western style setting as I listen; "The Original High" is a good song; I like "Underground" even though I'm very dubious about the phrase "I want you to take me underground". "There I Said It" is my favourite, and I love it very much. After that... "Things I Didn't Say" seems to me a terrible waste of a song that might have been heartrending with a broken vocal and minimal accompaniment—it's a good song, though not in the same class as Nsync's "I Thought She Knew", which has much the same concept, but it's a showpiece instead of an emotional one. "Lucy" has lyrics I actively dislike—and what a shocking waste of Dr Brian May. "Shame" has a sly, aren't-I-edgy vibe that makes me cross, and I vastly prefer the gleeful enthusiasm of "For Your Entertainment". Some of the rest make me wonder why anybody thought they should be on the album at all.
It's all very polished and highly produced in mostly rather familiar ways, and although there are songs on this album that I really, really like, overall it's just so disappointing.
And then there's Kris Allen's "Horizons", which is all heart, and pretty basic in terms of sound, and makes me smile. His love songs are interesting and really feel as though he's singing them *to* someone, and although a couple of the songs are simple in the extreme, they still manage to be jolly and catchy and likeable. And "Lost" is *wonderful*. Quite wonderful.